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单词 fury
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Definition of fury in English:

fury

nounPlural furies, Plural Furies ˈfjʊəriˈfjʊri
  • 1mass noun Wild or violent anger.

    狂怒,暴怒

    tears of fury and frustration

    狂怒和受挫的眼泪。

    Rachel shouted, beside herself with fury

    雷切尔怒不可遏地叫喊着。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • In particular, Western sexual freedom puts them under intolerable pressure, and they lash out in fury against us.
    • Either laid back or ignorant, Americans did not react to issues of genetically modified foods or cloning with the fury of Europeans.
    • Then she started inching towards me screaming in fury; I saw her hands were pointed towards me with very long crooked nails.
    • It was a deserted hallway, so I squeaked in alarm when she spun around a corner to face me, her face contorted in fury.
    • A white hot anger flared through him as he screamed in fury.
    • Emma's face is red with anger, her eyes flash in fury and her hair seems to have bushed out with rage.
    • The special committee decided after two hours of deliberation to consult on making the ban permanent, to the fury of many.
    • Unionist politicians reacted in fury to the court's ruling.
    • The demon screamed in fury as he flew through the air, before smashing through a tree and finally, sliding to a halt.
    • Howling in agony, the monster recoiled and twisted away, flailing in fury.
    • So we have some people stopping compliantly while others erupt in fury at the idiots in front of them braking for no reason.
    • Suddenly, he roared in fury, as he picked my entire body up from the ground and hurled me onto the hood of the burning truck.
    • He got up and stamped his feet in fury, pulling his hair in angry humiliation.
    • Can I explain the extreme fury and violation I felt at that moment?
    • She screamed in fury and then ran out of the room, hands over her ears as if she could hear someone screaming or maybe laughing at her.
    • His enemies in high places could only gnash their teeth in fury and wait for him to make a mistake or go away and leave them alone.
    • The net result is that often passengers arrive home late, in fury and bursting for a pee.
    • He quickly turned around, glaring at the younger woman in fury.
    • I thumped the mahogany table in fury and told Peat to take a letter for the prime minister.
    • The younger girl shook with anger, her face contorted in fury as she demanded Mrs. Opanir confess her secret.
    Synonyms
    rage, anger, wrath, passion, outrage, spleen, temper, savagery, frenzy, madness
    air rage
    crossness, indignation, umbrage, annoyance, exasperation
    literary ire, choler, bile
    1. 1.1a fury A surge of violent anger or other strong feeling.
      怒火(或其他情感的)的高涨
      in a fury, he lashed the horse on

      他勃然大怒,扬鞭策马而去。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • By now, it was at the bottom of the hill, blood gushing from its wounds, its anger now a frantic fury.
      • He shouted, kicking around the crates in a blind fury, rage coursing through his already angered veins.
      • I could feel myself building with anger, a cold fury; an anger that left me trembling from head to toe with my heart racing in my chest.
      • You only had to witness Ferguson work himself into a fury over Ronaldo's participation in the Olympics to gauge the Portuguese's importance to the team.
      • The young man's eyes burned with a fury and fierce protectiveness.
      • He was known as a ruthless man whose anger could turn into a raging fury.
      • The woman ran out in a fury, picked up the animal, and flung it savagely into the kennel.
      • And then, I felt a fury erupt inside of me.
      • He hated the right-wing media with a fury he rarely chose to disguise, an anger which led him to forbid access to columnists and reporters of the right.
  • 2mass noun Extreme strength or violence in an action or a natural phenomenon.

    the fury of a gathering storm

    急风骤雨的狂暴。

    she was paddling with a new fury

    她再次振臂奋力划动双桨。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • On the morning of May 5 their boat started feeling the fury of the storm.
    • They pushed opened the door revealing the full fury of the passing storm.
    • Instead I stared out the windows, which rattled even louder in the mounting fury of the storm.
    • Turner lashed himself to masts in order to witness the fury of storms at sea, and he was fascinated by shipwrecks.
    • The violence of long and bloody sieges, and the subsequent sacking of cities, is often compared to the devastating fury of the forces of nature.
    • I hadn't imagined I would have such an intimate contact with the raw fury of nature.
    • North of Fairwater, all the way to Ripon, it appears the trees did not feel the fury of our storm.
    • It was distant, full of the fury of a tempest on the sea, but it was Carmel's voice speaking through to him.
    • Suddenly, with an almighty fury, she punched me violently in the back with incredible force.
    • The tsunami should open our eyes to the reality that no force on earth can fight against the fury of sea.
    • The beauty of our surroundings matches the fury of the stream.
    • Iverson played with what appeared to be a reckless fury, as if he could only exorcise his demons on the basketball court.
    • In Galle's harbor, just a few damaged boats serve as a reminder of the fury of the waves.
    • The land and its colours, moods, and furies possess the people of Charleville in South West Queensland.
    • The stone is still there, split in half by the fury of the corporal's sword.
    Synonyms
    fierceness, ferocity, violence, turbulence, tempestuousness, savagery
    severity, intensity, vehemence, force, forcefulness, power, potency, strength
    rare ferity
  • 3Greek Mythology
    A spirit of punishment, often represented as one of three goddesses who pronounced curses on the guilty and inflicted famines and pestilences. The Furies were identified at an early date with the Eumenides.

    〔希腊神话〕复仇三女神之一(司惩罚的精灵;常表示诅咒犯罪者、使有罪者的良心受到折磨、带来饥荒和瘟疫的三位女神之一。复仇女神被认为与早期罗马神话中的欧墨尼得斯同体)

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Immediately after this, the avenging goddesses called Furies torment Orestes to the point of insanity.
    • The Furies represent a guilty conscience and Medusa represents stubbornness that turns the heart to stone.
    • Judith removes the Furies - three goddesses sent to avenge crime and sin - from their classical context and situates them in our current social climate.
    • The Eumenides shows the Furies in pursuit of Orestes, who is protected by the younger god Apollo.
    • In contrast to young Apollo and Athena, the Furies represent the primitive past that needs to be defeated and tamed in order for civilization to progress.

Phrases

  • like fury

    • informal With great energy or effort.

      〈非正式〉奋力地,猛烈地;拼命地

      she fought like fury in his arms

      她在他怀里拼命挣扎。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • We had to battle like fury to save ourselves from going back down to Division Three after only two seasons.
      • Ju had his left hand on the dome, hair standing on end as Ernie pumped the handle like fury.
      • Matty was well in the lead, pedalling like fury, increasing speed so he could make it through to the other side all in one go.
      • Matt pedalled like fury, and as the rope went taut, the rest of the lads gave me a hearty shove-off, chasing us down the hill whooping and shouting.
      • In other words, people were making their own entertainment like it had never gone out of style; there was a very strong sense of local networks, a circuit of people who had dinner parties with one another, and gossiped like fury.
      • If not, stand really well back from the pan, as it spits like fury.
      • When I'm most conflicted about life and myself, my displacement activity is to work like fury.
      • We are doing our best to provide as robust a service as possible in the circumstances and out timetablers will be working like fury over the weekend to get the information out as soon as we have it from Railtrack.
      • It still squeals like fury when I first drive it in the morning when the engine is cold, just as the last pump did and then continued to do off and on even after the van had warmed up.
      • Don't buy warranties on products from the big name manufacturers; but complain like fury if they do go wrong.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Old French furie, from Latin furia, from furiosus 'furious', from furere 'be mad, rage'.

Rhymes

curie, de jure, fioriture, houri, Jewry, jury, Manipuri, Missouri, moory, Newry, tandoori, Urey

Definition of fury in US English:

fury

nounˈfyo͝orēˈfjʊri
  • 1Wild or violent anger.

    狂怒,暴怒

    tears of fury and frustration

    狂怒和受挫的眼泪。

    Rachel shouted, beside herself with fury

    雷切尔怒不可遏地叫喊着。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • So we have some people stopping compliantly while others erupt in fury at the idiots in front of them braking for no reason.
    • The younger girl shook with anger, her face contorted in fury as she demanded Mrs. Opanir confess her secret.
    • Emma's face is red with anger, her eyes flash in fury and her hair seems to have bushed out with rage.
    • His enemies in high places could only gnash their teeth in fury and wait for him to make a mistake or go away and leave them alone.
    • In particular, Western sexual freedom puts them under intolerable pressure, and they lash out in fury against us.
    • Then she started inching towards me screaming in fury; I saw her hands were pointed towards me with very long crooked nails.
    • It was a deserted hallway, so I squeaked in alarm when she spun around a corner to face me, her face contorted in fury.
    • Howling in agony, the monster recoiled and twisted away, flailing in fury.
    • Suddenly, he roared in fury, as he picked my entire body up from the ground and hurled me onto the hood of the burning truck.
    • Either laid back or ignorant, Americans did not react to issues of genetically modified foods or cloning with the fury of Europeans.
    • Unionist politicians reacted in fury to the court's ruling.
    • Can I explain the extreme fury and violation I felt at that moment?
    • She screamed in fury and then ran out of the room, hands over her ears as if she could hear someone screaming or maybe laughing at her.
    • He got up and stamped his feet in fury, pulling his hair in angry humiliation.
    • The special committee decided after two hours of deliberation to consult on making the ban permanent, to the fury of many.
    • I thumped the mahogany table in fury and told Peat to take a letter for the prime minister.
    • He quickly turned around, glaring at the younger woman in fury.
    • A white hot anger flared through him as he screamed in fury.
    • The net result is that often passengers arrive home late, in fury and bursting for a pee.
    • The demon screamed in fury as he flew through the air, before smashing through a tree and finally, sliding to a halt.
    Synonyms
    rage, anger, wrath, passion, outrage, spleen, temper, savagery, frenzy, madness
    1. 1.1a fury A surge of violent anger or other feeling.
      怒火(或其他情感的)的高涨
      in a fury, he lashed the horse on

      他勃然大怒,扬鞭策马而去。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • He shouted, kicking around the crates in a blind fury, rage coursing through his already angered veins.
      • By now, it was at the bottom of the hill, blood gushing from its wounds, its anger now a frantic fury.
      • The young man's eyes burned with a fury and fierce protectiveness.
      • You only had to witness Ferguson work himself into a fury over Ronaldo's participation in the Olympics to gauge the Portuguese's importance to the team.
      • He hated the right-wing media with a fury he rarely chose to disguise, an anger which led him to forbid access to columnists and reporters of the right.
      • He was known as a ruthless man whose anger could turn into a raging fury.
      • The woman ran out in a fury, picked up the animal, and flung it savagely into the kennel.
      • And then, I felt a fury erupt inside of me.
      • I could feel myself building with anger, a cold fury; an anger that left me trembling from head to toe with my heart racing in my chest.
  • 2Violence or energy displayed in natural phenomena or in someone's actions.

    (自然现象或人的行动中所显示的)狂暴;猛劲;奋力

    the fury of a gathering storm

    急风骤雨的狂暴。

    she was paddling with a new fury

    她再次振臂奋力划动双桨。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The stone is still there, split in half by the fury of the corporal's sword.
    • On the morning of May 5 their boat started feeling the fury of the storm.
    • Iverson played with what appeared to be a reckless fury, as if he could only exorcise his demons on the basketball court.
    • In Galle's harbor, just a few damaged boats serve as a reminder of the fury of the waves.
    • I hadn't imagined I would have such an intimate contact with the raw fury of nature.
    • It was distant, full of the fury of a tempest on the sea, but it was Carmel's voice speaking through to him.
    • North of Fairwater, all the way to Ripon, it appears the trees did not feel the fury of our storm.
    • Turner lashed himself to masts in order to witness the fury of storms at sea, and he was fascinated by shipwrecks.
    • The land and its colours, moods, and furies possess the people of Charleville in South West Queensland.
    • The beauty of our surroundings matches the fury of the stream.
    • The violence of long and bloody sieges, and the subsequent sacking of cities, is often compared to the devastating fury of the forces of nature.
    • Instead I stared out the windows, which rattled even louder in the mounting fury of the storm.
    • Suddenly, with an almighty fury, she punched me violently in the back with incredible force.
    • The tsunami should open our eyes to the reality that no force on earth can fight against the fury of sea.
    • They pushed opened the door revealing the full fury of the passing storm.
    Synonyms
    fierceness, ferocity, violence, turbulence, tempestuousness, savagery
  • 3Greek Mythology
    A spirit of punishment, often represented as one of three goddesses who executed the curses pronounced upon criminals, tortured the guilty with stings of conscience, and inflicted famines and pestilences. The Furies were identified at an early date with the Eumenides.

    〔希腊神话〕复仇三女神之一(司惩罚的精灵;常表示诅咒犯罪者、使有罪者的良心受到折磨、带来饥荒和瘟疫的三位女神之一。复仇女神被认为与早期罗马神话中的欧墨尼得斯同体)

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Judith removes the Furies - three goddesses sent to avenge crime and sin - from their classical context and situates them in our current social climate.
    • Immediately after this, the avenging goddesses called Furies torment Orestes to the point of insanity.
    • In contrast to young Apollo and Athena, the Furies represent the primitive past that needs to be defeated and tamed in order for civilization to progress.
    • The Furies represent a guilty conscience and Medusa represents stubbornness that turns the heart to stone.
    • The Eumenides shows the Furies in pursuit of Orestes, who is protected by the younger god Apollo.

Phrases

  • like fury

    • informal With great energy or effort.

      〈非正式〉奋力地,猛烈地;拼命地

      she fought like fury in his arms

      她在他怀里拼命挣扎。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • When I'm most conflicted about life and myself, my displacement activity is to work like fury.
      • Don't buy warranties on products from the big name manufacturers; but complain like fury if they do go wrong.
      • It still squeals like fury when I first drive it in the morning when the engine is cold, just as the last pump did and then continued to do off and on even after the van had warmed up.
      • We had to battle like fury to save ourselves from going back down to Division Three after only two seasons.
      • Matty was well in the lead, pedalling like fury, increasing speed so he could make it through to the other side all in one go.
      • Ju had his left hand on the dome, hair standing on end as Ernie pumped the handle like fury.
      • In other words, people were making their own entertainment like it had never gone out of style; there was a very strong sense of local networks, a circuit of people who had dinner parties with one another, and gossiped like fury.
      • Matt pedalled like fury, and as the rope went taut, the rest of the lads gave me a hearty shove-off, chasing us down the hill whooping and shouting.
      • We are doing our best to provide as robust a service as possible in the circumstances and out timetablers will be working like fury over the weekend to get the information out as soon as we have it from Railtrack.
      • If not, stand really well back from the pan, as it spits like fury.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Old French furie, from Latin furia, from furiosus ‘furious’, from furere ‘be mad, rage’.

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